The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume I, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction and notes by Robert E. Spiller

Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson

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Introduction
The Text

1. Nature

Editors' Note
Introduction
Chapter I: Nature
Chapter II: Commodity
Chapter III: Beauty
Chapter IV: Language
Chapter V: Discipline
Chapter VI: Idealism
Chapter VII: Spirit
Chapter VIII: Prospects

2. Addresses

The American Scholar
The Divinity School Address
Literary Ethics,br> The Method of Nature

3. Lectures

Man the Reformer
Lectures on the Times
Introductory Lecture,br> The Conservative
The Transcendentalist
The Young American

Notes
Parallel Passages
Textual Apparatus
Hyphenations
Alterations in Copy--Text and Rejected Variants
Index

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Alfred R. Ferguson was, until his death, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.